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Clinical Services (Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation):
Innovative Treatments
In 2002, Children's doctors performed the world's first serial transverse enteroplasty (STEP) procedure, a surgical technique developed by Tom Jaksic, MD and Heung Bae Kim, MD, which lengthens the bowels of children with short bowel syndrome.

Since its invention, Children's doctors have performed seven STEP procedures with increasing success, establishing Children's as one of the preeminent hospitals in the world for the treatment of short bowel syndrome.

To read more about this innovative procedure, visit www.STEPoperation.org.

Meet the Experts on STEP
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Tom Jaksic, MD, PhD and Heung Bae Kim, MD
Watch video segments of Dr. Tom Jaksic and Dr. Heung Bae Kim discussing the symptoms of Short Bowel Syndrome and its innovative treatment through the STEP (serial transverse enteroplasty) procedure. Requires RealPlayer. For best video playback, right click and save the files to your desktop.
Dr. Kim describes Short Bowel Syndrome
Dr. Jaksic defines STEP
Dr. Jaksic on the history of the STEP procedure
Dr. Jaksic explains the benefits of STEP
Dr. Kim describes the candidates for STEP
Dr. Jaksic outlines the follow-up care for patients receiving the STEP procedure
Dr. Kim on the STEP procedure at Children's
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Patient Story
A month before he turned 2, Alex Malo became the first patient to have a STEP procedure.
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